ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the emergent body of work dealing with various aspects of journalism and everyday life. It outlines some historical trajectories of journalism’s relationship with everyday life. The chapter deals with the topic from the production and content side of journalism. Yet, changing realities within journalism and broader developments on the societal level have led journalism scholarship to slowly engage more fundamentally with journalism’s role outside the sphere of politics. Lifestyle journalism, as a key area dealing with matters of everyday life, has been experiencing immense growth in decades. Consumption is expressed through such aspects as journalism’s service and advice function. Instances of identity formation contributions in journalism can also be found in studies of representations. In lifestyle journalism, emotion plays a particularly significant role because of the field’s key goal of providing entertaining and inspiring news. E. Fursich points out the relevance of analyses of the politics of everyday life coverage in relation to lifestyle journalism.
